DukePerformances Announces 2009-10 Schedule

Duke Performances has just released its schedule for the 2009-2010 academic calendar. The season incorporates 10 thematic series (By the River, This House on Fire, With These Hands, Voices Lifted, At the Crossroads, Moved, Piano Recital Series, Duke Artists Series, Ciompi Quartet and Chamber Arts Society) from around the world and commences Sunday, August 30 at 4 p.m. in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, commemorating their 75th year. Tickets go on sale for all events July 21. For the full listings, check out the dP Web site here. Or, you can check out the version I've copy-pasted from the press release after the jump.

August

30, Sunday, 4 pm – Sweet Honey in the Rock (Duke Gardens)

*By the River Series

September

12, Saturday, 8 pm – New Baroque Ensemble (Reynolds)

Mozart:

*Chamber Arts Society Series

25, Friday, 8 pm – Corey Harris Quintet and James “Blood” Ulmer Trio (Reynolds)

*By the River Series

26, Saturday, 8 pm – Takács String Quartet (Reynolds)

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 71, No. 1

Schumann: String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 1

Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1

*Chamber Arts Society Series

26, Saturday, 7 pm – Sun Ra Arkestra and Mingus Big Band (Page)

*This House on Fire Series

October

1, Thursday, 5 pm – Awadagin Pratt Master Class (Baldwin)

*Piano Recital Series

2, Friday, 8 pm –Awadagin Pratt (Reynolds)

Haydn: Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:37

Haydn: Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI:41

Beethoven: Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Bach: Passacaglia & Fugue in C Minor (Arranged by A. Pratt)

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

*Piano Recital Series

9, Friday, 8 pm – Dianne Reeves feat. Russell Malone & Romero Lubambo (Page)

*Voices Lifted Series

10, Saturday, 8 pm – The Hallelujah Train feat. Pastor Brady Blade Sr., Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade, Brady L. Blade Jr., Greg Leisz, Buddy Miller, Jon Cowherd, Chris Thomas, Ada Small (Hayti Heritage Center)

*By the River Series

11, Sunday, 10 am – Worship Service with Pastor Brady Blade, Sr. (Hayti Heritage Center)

*By the River Series

11, Sunday, 5 pm – The Hallelujah Train feat. Pastor Brady Blade Sr., Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade, Brady L. Blade Jr., Greg Leisz, Buddy Miller, Jon Cowherd, Chris Thomas, Ada Small (Hayti Heritage Center)

*By the River Series

16, Friday, 8 pm – Don Byron New Gospel Quintet feat. Rev. Kelly R. Andrews of Eastern Star Missionary Baptist Church, Tarboro, NC (Hayti Heritage Center)

*By the River Series

17, Saturday, 8 pm – Anonymous 4 (Duke Chapel)

Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas Music of Thirteenth-Century Spain

*Duke Artists Series

18, Sunday, 12 pm – Anonymous 4, Master Class (Nelson)

*Duke Artists Series

19, Monday, 5 pm – Murray Perahia Conversation (Nelson)

*Piano Recital Series & Duke Artists Series

20, Tuesday, 8 pm – Murray Perahia (Page)

Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109

Schumann: Kinderszenen

Chopin: 3-4 pieces to be determined

*Piano Recital Series & Duke Artists Series

23, Friday, 8 pm – Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Waiting for Godot (Reynolds)

*At the Crossroads Series

24, Saturday – Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Waiting for Godot (Reynolds)

*At the Crossroads Series

25, Sunday, 3 pm – Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Waiting for Godot (Reynolds)

*At the Crossroads Series

29, Thursday, 8 pm – Louis Lortie (Reynolds)

Chopin: Études (Complete)

*Piano Recital Series

30, Friday, 8 pm – Gal Costa feat. Romero Lubambo (Reynolds)

*Voices Lifted Series

November

6, Friday, 5 pm – Master Class w/ Sharon Robinson & Jamie Laredo of K-L-R Trio (Nelson Music Room)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

7, Saturday, 8 pm – Miami String Quartet & Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson (Reynolds)

Boccherini: String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

Ellen Taafe Zwillich: Piano Septet (2008, Chamber Arts Society Co-Commission)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

12, Thursday, 8 pm – Urban Bush Women (Reynolds)

*Moved Series

13, Friday, 8 pm – Lambchop and Alejandro Escovedo (Reynolds)

*With These Hands Series

December

5, Saturday, 8 pm – St. Lawrence String Quartet (Reynolds)

Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

John Adams: String Quartet (2008, St. Lawrence String Quartet Commission)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

January

21, Thursday, 5 pm – Anton Kuerti Master Class (Baldwin)

*Piano Recital Series

22, Friday, 8 pm – Anton Kuerti (Reynolds)

All-Beethoven:

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les Adieux”

Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”

33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C Major, Op. 120

*Piano Recital Series

23, Saturday, 8 pm – Luciana Souza feat. Cyro Baptista & Romero Lubambo (Reynolds)

*Voices Lifted Series

28, Thursday, 8 pm – Jason Moran feat. Alicia Moran (Nelson)

*This House on Fire Series

29, Friday, 8 pm – Alonzo King LINES Ballet feat. Jason Moran’s Bandwagon (Reynolds)

Moran & Scheherazade

*Moved Series

30, Saturday, 8 pm – Alonzo King LINES Ballet feat. Jason Moran’s Bandwagon (Reynolds)

Moran & Scheherazade

*Moved Series

30, Saturday, 8 pm – Orpheus Chamber Orchestra feat. Angela Hewitt, piano (Page)

Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for String Orchestra, “Basel Concerto”

Bach: Concerto for Piano and Strings in D Minor, BWV. 1052

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: “New Brandenburg No. 5”

Dvo?ák: Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22

*Duke Artists Series

February

5, Friday, 5 pm – Orion String Quartet Master Class (Nelson)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

5, Friday, 8 pm – Peter Serkin (Reynolds)

Works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin & Charles Wuorinen

*Piano Recital Series

6, Saturday, 8 pm – Peter Serkin & Orion String Quartet (Reynolds)

Bach: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 1

Leon Kirchner: String Quartet No. 4

Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74, “Harp”

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

*Chamber Arts Society Series

11, Thursday, 8 pm – Miguel Zenon’s Esta Plena Septet (Reynolds)

Singers: Hector "Tito" Matos, Juan Gutierrez, Obanilu Allende

*This House on Fire & Wail Series

12, Friday, 8 pm – Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition (Nelson)

*This House on Fire & Wail Series

13, Saturday, 8 pm – Ravi Coltrane’s Quartet (Reynolds)

*This House on Fire & Wail Series

19, Friday, 8 pm – Punch Brothers feat. Chris Thile (Reynolds)

“The Blind Leaving the Blind” suite

*With These Hands Series

25, Thursday, 8 pm & 10:30 pm – Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited (Duke Coffeehouse)

*By the River Series

26, Friday, 8 pm – lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi: Nora Chipaumire feat. Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited (Reynolds)

*Moved Series

27, Saturday, 8 pm – lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi Nora Chipaumire feat. Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited (Reynolds)

*Moved Series

March

5, Friday, 8 pm – Rafal Blechacz (Reynolds)

Bach: Italian Concerto, BWV. 971

Mozart: Sonata in B-flat Major, KV. 570

Karol Szymanowski: Variations in B-flat Minor, Op. 3

Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47

Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat Major, in E Minor, in A-flat Major, in A Minor, Op. 17

Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61

*Piano Recital Series

13, Saturday, 8 pm – Artemis String Quartet (Reynolds)

Beethoven:

String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2

String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”

String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132

*Chamber Arts Society Series

19, Friday, 8 pm – Farber Foundry’s MoLoRa, An Adaptation of The Oresteia feat. Ngqoko Cultural Group (Reynolds)

*At the Crossroads Series

20, Saturday, 8 pm – Farber Foundry’s MoLoRa, An Adaptation of The Oresteia feat. Ngqoko Cultural Group (Reynolds)

*At the Crossroads Series

25, Thursday, 8 pm – Los Lobos and Leo Kottke (Page)

*With These Hands Series

26, Friday, 8 pm – Antares Piano-Clarinet Quartet (Nelson)

Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114

Caroline Mallonée: New Work (2010)

Peter Lieberson: “Tashi Quartet”

*Chamber Arts Society Series

27, Saturday, 12 pm – Antares Master Class (Nelson)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

27, Saturday, 8 pm – Antares Piano-Clarinet Quartet (Nelson)

Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor

Bartok: "Contrasts"

Messiaen: “Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps” (“Quartet for the End of Time”)

*Chamber Arts Society Series

April

10, Saturday, 8 pm – Kronos Quartet (Page)

World premiere of Maria Schneider’s new quartet for Kronos

Program, other than the Schneider commission, TBD

*This House on Fire Series

14, Wednesday, 5 pm – Mark O’Connor Master Class (Nelson)

*With These Hands Series

15, Thursday, 8 pm – Poets & Prophets: Rosanne Cash and Mark O’Connor (Page)

*With These Hands Series

16, Friday, 8 pm – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields feat. Julian Rachlin, violin (Page)

Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op. 40

Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer Sonata” (Arranged by R. Tognetti)

Britten: Lachrymae, Op. 48

Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

*Duke Artists Series

May

8, Saturday, 8 pm – Han, Setzer, Finckel Trio (Reynolds)

Schubert:

Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 99, D. 898

Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929

*Chamber Arts Society Series

Ciompi Quartet – Duke University’s Resident Chamber Ensemble – 2009/10 Season:

Tuesday, September 15, 12noon-1p, Rare Book Room – Lunchtime Concert #1

Haydn: Opus 20, No. 3, from the “Sun Quartets”

Thursday, October 15, 6p, Nelson – First Course #1

Composer Max Raimi discusses his premiere

Sunday, October 18, 3p, Reynolds – Concert #1

Haydn: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 #3 (1772)

Max Raimi: Quintet for Saxophone and Strings (2009)

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61 (1881)

Guest artist: Susan Fancher, saxophone

Tuesday, November 3, 12noon-1p, Rare Book Room - Lunchtime Concert #2

Beethoven: Opus 59, No. 3

Thursday, November 12, 6p, Duke Gardens – First Course #2

Prof. John Supko discusses Bartok

Saturday, November 14, 8p, Nelson – Concert #2

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